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PROHIBITION,

THE COMING FIGHT.

wisely spent, be is alive to the awful results of excess and of the danger of moderation merging into abuse, he recalls this one and

MISS LENA ASHWELL'S EXPERIMENT.

LONDON.

that one overtaken by shame and | MUNICIPAL THEATRES FOR premature death; and he dislikes to see his son entering upon the slippers path: but, notwithstand-

As a nation, we have progress. ed slowly towards sobriety; but

Five or six municipal theatres the goal is set a long way off, says "A Moderate Reformer" in fing all that, his ideal is temperare to be started in London in To gratify October, the boroughs in which * Scottish paper. Prison Comance, not abstinence.

his palate or merely to conform the mayors are providing a hall for Miss Lena Ashwell's com- missioners, High Court Judges. Magistrates, and Police all insist to social usages, he is willing to His obser face the risks.

pany to give one performance does ADI convince

Battersea vation upon the close relation between

being every week is bim

abstinence that crime and intemperante. Doctors

and Camberwell,

Shoreditch: and tell of death and disease produc-

THE CHOICE OF REMEDIES,

1252

in

There are large areas covered

"Is

ed by excessive drinking. Ordio-invariably associated with length Bethnal Green. Stepoes ary citizens. of their own observa. of happy days and rade health. Bow, which is part of Poplar, tian, know of numerous instances He honestly fails to understand uniting in the People's -Palace: and probably Fulham And in which the abuse of alcohol has why he should be deprived of

Hackney. ruined and blighted individuals freedom becans another man

to enjoy and families. No amount of turns it into licence, or why it is casuistry can evade the situation.morally wrong Intemperance is an evil, fatal to moderation that which taken in by these and other boroughs, health, and virtue, to domestic excess, is an admitted avil HisMisa Ashwell pointed out in pence and social prosperity. Na position may be entirely illogical.an interview with a represents- one defends it, and every man. It may will be that the evils tive of the the Oberrer, in which, of mas. there is no place of eater- advantages concerned for the welfare of his wrought by strong drink far with the exception of small cine

outweigh the

This, then, is fellows, is constrained to every legitimate mean for its moderation, and that this world tainment at all.

would be a fairer place without the problem," she said: suppression.

bot that is a proposition with there sufficient amusement for alcohol: You cannot bludgeon into the health of the people in these aman's head; you must appeal areas? In the view of most people So far, we are all of one to his reason. It is a case for with whom I have been talking the subject there is pot. There then comes the question of awakening accord; but, in the choice of a propaganda, not for force. remedy, we and ourselves

the interes: of the people them- variance. Some seek a cure along

selves to protect their own in- the lines of volution: some

The Scottish Temperance Act,terests in recreation. And the Τα these prefer revolution latter, the evil is so gigantic and accordance with which we people having decided what they universal that a drastic remedy Ishall be called upon to vote in I want, the next step is to get some November, is a compromise which civic feeling with regard to essential: and there is

pleases neither section. The amusement and the sanity of something fascinatingly simple in going straight to the fountain-extreme testotal people, even if what is good and the insanity of head and turning of the tap. Ifthey won all along the line, could what is bad."

Act, achieve the theory is you eliminate rohibition. They will use the you cut off the supply of lique ander the

Act as a step towards Prohibition drunkenness and all the crime by gunting "No Licence, which disease, degradation and OCTO that belong to it. Coupared with that swift process, evolution

seems

AN UNSATISFACTORY ACT.

That town halls are not the

most suitable places for dramatic performances she at once admit- ed. There is no scenery, she if carried, would make liquor very said, there is not the proper

much more difficult to obtain. atmosphere or the conditions

of course is ludicrously slow. It would not altogether prohibit which connect the mind with the

it.

The real Prohibition fighttheatre; but, on the other hand, takes time to educate people to would still have to be foughthe difficulty caused by the improve their housing, to mitigate!

Many moderate users of alchol. the condition of their labour, to enhance the possibilities of their however, are as much alive to the absence of scenery can be over- leisure. to raise their moral and evils of abuse as the extremists if there is any civic feeling

their self-respect. increase Americans with characteristic energy and love of quick results solved their liquor problem with one decisive stroke.

that

come by the use of curtains, and

growing there is the advantage of starting the experiment in a place which is the property of the borough.

sad

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called are dram-shops

public-house." and they would transform them entirely. Thes are also persuaded that there are

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THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT.

The Act does not help them to one or two questions that have Whether the American solution much, because it contains nothing been raised with regard to the In the first place, it Some however, scheme. is successful or permanent has con-tractive. still to be demoistrated. It is have arrived at the conclusion is legally impossible for the possible for reasonable people to that the best use they can make borough councils to spend any entertain doubts, and. in any of the Act is to it forces with money on entertainmente of this the extremists and vote "No kind; and, in the second, all the event, it does not follow that remedy suitable for America is Licence." not because they want artists will be paid exactly as suitable for the conditions that Prohibition, but because they if they were engaged in a theatre, lexis: here. There are many want the ground cleared for and perhaps a little better. We qpaint laws in the great polyglot fresh legislation to introduce the have the money that remains from Republic. where the "white" model public house. Less daring the public support which was given to our concerts at the front Americans have found that they reformers will vote" Limitation." dare not grant complete personal The present system has many We were allowed to keep that liberty to all. We have no Negro obrious defects, and the "No balance for demobilisation por

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analogous to that large section of American citizens described by President Wilson as the scum of South-Eastern Europe." In the enforcement of social righteous. ness, moreover, we lack the Ameri- cau daring and love of experiment. We recognise that a man has no inalienable right to make himself

GENERAL NEWS.

of people show an interest in the movement the experiment can pay its way and pay the salarice of the artists and be self-support- ing. More than that from & financial point of view it cannot be; it can never be a commercial undertaking. The prices we intend The Home Secretary has apto charge will range at the outside pointed a Departmental Commi-from about a shilling to half-a-

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

CTOWD. - -

a burden on other people or a tee to convider (1) whether it is source of degradation a danger desirable to make legal provison

"The plays which weshall pro- to the community, but teetotal for the adoption of children in

are those which have extremists are ahead of pablic this country, and (2) if so, what duce opinion in afhrming the right of from such provision should take.already proved successes wher- the State to dictate what a de- The Committeee consists of Sir.over the company has performed cent, God-fearing, lawabiding. Alfred Hopkinson, K.C., Chair-them. For the most part they are- industrious citizen shall not mad, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, good modem plays that have drink. If you abstain from liquor MF the Hon. Lady Norman, appealed to the public. We in order to assist wesker M.B.E, Mrs. C. E. B. Russel, Mr. are not in the least high- brother, that is an entirely meri- James Seddon, CB, ME, and brow we are only trying to torious attitude; but if you fore-Mr, F. W. Sherwood. The secre-give healthy amusement. Two-

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another men who is as good à Home Office.

citizen as you. that savours of fanaticism. You approach again the stage where we burned minorities for the good of their immortal partai

THE MODERSTE DRINKER'S.

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You me

LANDLORDS, WHO REFUSE

Twelfth Night before Christmas and The Merchant of Venice afterwards The members of the company, were all in the war, They have been playing together a great deal during the last or so, and they have bee

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